[anymouse]

Why don't these cities work on lowering their tax rate and cutting their regulation red tape to attract businesses.

Why do these idiot bureaucrats always think they can attract new businesses by offering up cheap trinkets and bribing them with temporary special deals?

Make your city business-friendly and they will beat a path to your door.

[hispanarepublicana]

Why don't these cities work on lowering their tax rate

Lubbock has. It's where "truth in taxation" was born, which lowers the tax rate if appraisals go up so that the city's budget stays the same. Governor Perry tried to pass this in a bill statewide last year, but RINOs killed the legislation.